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2011/01/18 02:33:46
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
Melissia wrote:I bet you do bump your pals. All night long.
At any rate, something that DOES annoy me is the idea that it's somehow illogical to want to play female characters in games, an exclusively male opinion as far as I can tell...
...or if you can, they're dressed like whores.
The "Less is more" rule applies here?
Every Normal Man Must Be Tempted At Times To Spit On His Hands, Hoist That Black Flag, And Begin Slitting Throats.
2011/01/18 02:33:53
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
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halonachos wrote:Mordo is evil, the cute walrus wearing a monocle is just a disguise for the evils within the confines of the avatar box.
darksage wrote:And then the darkness approached the computer screen ready to unveil untold horrors on millions of unsuspecting innocents... Some knew him as the bringer of terror...some knew him as the spawn of all things evil...some knew him as the walrus, but then their lives would account for nothing, for they would be dead in seconds of the words leaving their lips.The walrus has posted, prepare for the death of worlds.
2011/01/18 02:42:05
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
us guys would laugh at this but women would be revolted at this
Warning may contain rabbits and not anything horrible, unless if you think an exploding rabbit is something bad.
From whom are unforgiven we bring the mercy of war.
2011/01/18 02:44:45
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
Fafnir wrote:Hey, as a new media major with what essentially is a minor in psychology, that's one of the things I want to eventually figure out.
(ie, women and videogames and women in videogames)
I cannot agree with this even more.
Damn straight. It's rediculous how male dominated my new media classes are. I hope for a day when videogames can use sex and gender in a mature way, rather than simply pandering to 13 year old boys.
2011/01/18 03:15:21
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
Fafnir wrote:Damn straight. It's rediculous how male dominated my new media classes are. I hope for a day when videogames can use sex and gender in a mature way, rather than simply pandering to 13 year old boys.
You don't see this as pandering to a different audience?
I certainly do.
Drink deeply and lustily from the foamy draught of evil.
W: 1.756 Quadrillion L: 0 D: 2
Haters gon' hate.
2011/01/18 04:18:23
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
I don't even know what Monster Rain said (due to ignoring him) and I still have an urge to tell him to shutup. Ah well. It was probably nothing worth reading anyway.
Regardless, I like that guy's videos. And it's ahrdly like he's the only one. I mean hell, Zoey is the most popular L4D character, but strangely noone's seen that fact and thought "hrm, I wonder if we can make a non-zombie related heroine out of that concept..."
Homefront missed a good chance to play with it when they picked some generic ex-military dude instead of a civilian.
The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2011/01/18 04:30:48
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
Monster Rain wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again. When I look at who I'm friends with and who ignores me I feel like I'm doing something right.
I'm not worried about Melissia. sHe will come around eventually.
I think she secretly likes you.
2011/01/18 04:48:50
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
Monster Rain wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again. When I look at who I'm friends with and who ignores me I feel like I'm doing something right.
I'm not worried about Melissia. sHe will come around eventually.
I think she secretly likes you.
It wouldn't surprise me. I'm wildly alluring.
What's that they they say about haters and hatin'?
Drink deeply and lustily from the foamy draught of evil.
W: 1.756 Quadrillion L: 0 D: 2
Haters gon' hate.
2011/01/18 05:07:41
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
Melissia wrote:By western I was mostly referring to the US and possibly UK (the US basically being the exemplar of "western culture" in most peoples eyes), but yes, you are right.
By "most people's eyes", of course, you mean "US eyes".
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Monster Rain wrote:You don't see this as pandering to a different audience?
I certainly do.
The word 'pandering' is a big deal there, in contrast to the call for 'mature' handling in Fafnir's post. You can't really handle something in a mature way and pander to an audience.
Well, unless 'mature' actually just means 'we show boobs and sex' which is that not all mature style of 'mature', in which case then it is certainly pandering. But if it's 'mature' as in 'includes believable male and female characters who deal with issues with close parallels in the real world' then not so much...
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Melissia wrote:I don't even know what Monster Rain said (due to ignoring him) and I still have an urge to tell him to shutup. Ah well. It was probably nothing worth reading anyway.
Wow, that was really petty.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2011/01/18 05:26:50
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
sebster wrote:The word 'pandering' is a big deal there, in contrast to the call for 'mature' handling in Fafnir's post. You can't really handle something in a mature way and pander to an audience.
Well, unless 'mature' actually just means 'we show boobs and sex' which is that not all mature style of 'mature', in which case then it is certainly pandering. But if it's 'mature' as in 'includes believable male and female characters who deal with issues with close parallels in the real world' then not so much...
I know exactly what you're saying, and I agree with you for the most part, but I see the marketing trends that are starting to try to get adult women to buy more video games and the part of my brain that's always watching for carny tricks starts to twitch.
I agree that there is a difference in degrees between "boobs for the young men" and "believable characters of either gender" but you can't sit there and act like they don't pander with strong female characters in movies and television. (Lifetime Network, anyone?)
Oh, and another thing. I keep seeing your new avatar and thinking it is Frazzled posting.
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Drink deeply and lustily from the foamy draught of evil.
W: 1.756 Quadrillion L: 0 D: 2
Haters gon' hate.
2011/01/18 05:32:54
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
Monster Rain wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again. When I look at who I'm friends with and who ignores me I feel like I'm doing something right.
I'm not worried about Melissia. sHe will come around eventually.
I think she secretly likes you.
It wouldn't surprise me. I'm wildly alluring.
What's that they they say about haters and hatin'?
Either that, or she's jealous of the paint-jobs on your minis.
2011/01/18 05:34:13
Subject: Things you don't understand about the Opposite Gender
Monster Rain wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again. When I look at who I'm friends with and who ignores me I feel like I'm doing something right.
I'm not worried about Melissia. sHe will come around eventually.
I think she secretly likes you.
It wouldn't surprise me. I'm wildly alluring.
What's that they they say about haters and hatin'?
Either that, or she's jealous of the paint-jobs on your minis.
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